James Mcmurtry-Lights Of Cheyenne chords

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I HOPE THIS IS CLOSE ENOUGH. I AM HAPPY WITH IT. I COULD NOT FIND ANY VERSIONS
OF THIS SONG ANYWHERE, SO THIS IS WHAT I CAME UP WITH.
CAPO on the second fret
D4= XX0233 G/F#=220033 LIGHTS OF CHEYENNE
Cadd9= X32033 G = 320033 JAMES MCMURTRY
Em7= 022033
VERSE 1
Cadd9GCadd9G
Look off down the highway at the glittering lights
Cadd9GED4
Like windshield glass on the shoulder tonight
Cadd9D4Em7
As the diesels come grinding on up from the plains
GCadd9D4
All bunched up like pearls on a string
GCadd9G
And I guess time don't mean nothin' Not nothin' at all
Cadd9GEm7D4
And out on the horizon the broken stars fall
Cadd9D4Em7
Old broken stars they fall down on the land
GCadd9D4G
And get mixed together with the lights of Cheyenne
VERSE 2
Cadd9GCadd9G
Well I've been up all night and I'm down on my back
Cadd9GEm7D4
Workin' the counter to take up the slack
Cadd9D4Em7
Cause the money tree's light and the whiskey stream's low
GCadd9D4
You ain't worked a week since July
GCadd9G
You say the gravel pit's hiring After the first
Cadd9GEm7D4
But you don't have the nature for that kind of work
Cadd9D4Em7
You might get hired on But you won't make a hand
GCadd9D4G
And I'll still be here lookin' at the lights of Cheyenne
CHORUS
D4
You stand in the sky
Cadd9G
with your feet on the ground
D4Cadd9
Never suspectin' a thing
D4
But if the sky were to
Cadd9G
move you might never be found
Em7G/F#Cadd9
Never be heard from again
VERSE 3
Cadd9GCadd9G
We go on good behavior when our youngest comes home
Cadd9GEm7D4
She comes up from Boulder but she never stays long
Cadd9D4Em7
And that oldest still fights me like she was 18
GCadd9D4
Stopped in for a 6-pack awhile ago
GCadd9G
And she's got a cowboy problem And this last one's a sight
Cadd9GEm7D4
All dressed up like Gunsmoke for Saturday night
Cadd9D4Em7
And they were off to the bars for lack of a plan
GCadd9D4G
Racing the stars to the lights of Cheyenne
(little solo part goes here)
VERSE 4
Cadd9GCadd9G
And you've kept all that meanness inside you so long
Cadd9GEm7D4
You'd fight with a fence post if it looked at your wrong
Cadd9D4Em7
Well the post won't hit back, and it won't call the law
GCadd9D4
I look at your right, or I don't look at all
GCadd9G
Now take a crumpled up soft pack and give it a shake
Cadd9GEm7D4
Out by the dumpster on a cigarette break
Cadd9D4Em7
With one eye swelled up from the back of your hand
GCadd9D4G
And the other eye fixed on the lights of Cheyenne
- chorus-
VERSE 5
Cadd9GCadd9G
Now there's antelope grazing in range of my gun
Cadd9GEm7D4
Come opening weekend you won't see a one
Cadd9D4Em7
They'll vanish like ghosts `cause somehow they know
GCadd9D4
But now they're up to the fence in the early dawn
GCadd9G
And it's warming up nicely for this time of year
Cadd9GEm7D4
The creeks are still frozen but the roads are all clear
Cadd9D4Em7
And I don't have it in me to make one more stand
GCadd9D4G
Though I never much cared f or the lights of Cheyenne